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One Very Pissed Off Rudolph


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I remember in Ranger School, the immediate action drill for a "near ambush" is to attack (charge) into the direction of fire - which seems EXTREMELY counter-intuitive.

 

But - in reality - if you walk into a well-planned ambush, you have little hope of escaping anyway, and the ONLY hope you really have is to attack into (and past) the guns.

 

The deer just proved the point.

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Charge an ambush is what we learned in our intensive training after AIT before shipping out to Vietnam. It seemed a bit suicidal to me, but it probably was the only real chance you had. (I served with a guy who came to us because he was one of only 2 survivors of his platoon in an ambush by an NVA company. He had a crease across his forehead, where a bullet had grazed him. The other guy was wounded too.)

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